DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Renewable Revolution
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Fossil Fuel Folly
*****************************************************
#Post#: 16807--------------------------------------------------
🎋 Victories Against the 🦕 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn
By: AGelbert Date: July 29, 2021, 8:48 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[center][img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-270521170028.png[/img][/center]
Make Nexus Hot News part of your morning: click [i]here
HTML https://climatenexus.org/climate-change-news/
to subscribe.[/i]
July 29, 2021
[center][img
width=30]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-210614221847.gif[/img]<br
/>‘People are Winning’ -- Oil Hub First in US to Ban 🦕
Fossils[img
width=40]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160017-22191429.png[/img]<br
/>
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818184311-16361805.gif[/center]
The Whatcom County Council in Washington state has unanimously
passed permanent land-use policies that ban new 🦕 fossil
fuel infrastructure, becoming the first in the US to pass such a
measure.
The ordinance prohibits the construction of new refineries or
coal facilities and places more restrictions on expansion of
fossil fuel facilities at Cherry Point, such as requiring
offsets for greenhouse gases emitted from any expansions and
rigorous environmental review.
Whatcom is currently polluted by two of Washington’s five oil
refineries, and five years ago saw the cancellation of the
country’s largest planned coal export facility due to concerns
from the Lummi Tribe around fishing treaty rights. “What's been
happening in Whatcom County for the last 10 years and in the
state and Oregon is that people have been saying no to these new
proposals coming forward one by one by one,” said Matt Krogh,
director of the Safe Cities campaign for Stand.earth. “And
people are winning.” [img
width=30]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-210818180844.png[/img]
HTML https://www.thenorthernlight.com/stories/whatcom-county-council-prohibits-building-of-new-refineries-shipping-facilities-in-cherry-point,17151
#Post#: 16809--------------------------------------------------
Re: 🎋 Victories Against the 🦕 Hydrocarbon Hellsp
awn
By: AGelbert Date: July 30, 2021, 11:05 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[center][img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-010621212522.png[/img][/center]
BANKS NAMED IN THIS DIGEST:
BNP Paribas
Crédit Agricole
Deutsche Bank
FICOHSA Bank
Intesa Sanpaolo
JPMorgan Chase
Natixis / BCPE
Société Générale
Standard Chartered
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust
July 30, 2021
Dear Anthony,
With less than a hundred days to Glasgow, it seems the planet is
trying to tell us something. Heatwaves, [img
width=40]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png[/img]<br
/>forest fires and devastating 🌊 floods occupy the news
every day. The record for the highest temperature ever reliably
recorded on Earth was broken, again. The climate crisis is upon
us, and to credibly address the problem, banks need to come
forward before Glasgow with commitments to reduce their fossil
fuel financing rapidly.
This is not only our view, but the view of asset managers worth
$4.2 trillion, who wrote to banks this month. And it is in line
with what Dr. Fatih Birol of the IEA told the UK government last
week. Moves like Intesa Sanpaolo's this month, which refer to
fossil gas as a "low carbon alternative", are not going to cut
it. While their new policy contains some steps forward, we've
passed the point where we can applaud baby steps that leave
space for financing new fossil fuel projects that will make this
crisis worse.
Thankfully, there is a global movement working to get the
message across to banks everywhere. Earlier this year, BankTrack
launched fossilbanks.org, a platform that aims to support this
movement and profile the many campaigns targeting "fossil banks"
globally. Please do get in touch if you have a campaign you'd
like us to feature on this platform. Groups and individuals
alike can sign up to support our Global Call on Banks
HTML https://erin.mobilize.io/links?lid=4wugt_Y1rkfaRAZzCMiK3g&token=CngOFJfOLlfbv-reDqsYEw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fossilbanks.org%2Fsign-global-call-banks-stop-financing-fossil-fuels<br
/>to rapidly shut down their finance for the 🦖 fossil fu
el
👿 industry and finance a just energy transition. [img
width=70
height=40]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-060518153110.png[/img]
Also in this month's newsletter, bank ties to companies
supporting the military junta in Myanmar are deeper than first
thought. And a new dodgy deal on Formosa Plastics' "Sunshine
Project" in Louisiana's so-called "Cancer Alley", a textbook
case of environmental racism despite the cheerful name.
With best wishes,
The BankTrack Team
BankTrack July News Digest
HTML https://mailchi.mp/banktrack/july-news-digest
[img
width=60]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418200416.png[/img]<br
/>
#Post#: 16820--------------------------------------------------
Re: 🎋 Victories Against the 🦕 Hydrocarbon Hellsp
awn
By: AGelbert Date: August 10, 2021, 11:33 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[center] [img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-270521170028.png[/img][/center]
August 10, 2021
[center]Activists
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-190119153601.gif[img<br
/>width=40]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-2281531.png[/img]<br
/>Halt Mountain Valley 🦕 Pipeline Construction [img
width=30]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-210818180844.png[/img][/center]
Environmental activists temporarily shut down construction of
the already over-budget and behind schedule Mountain Valley
Pipeline in southwestern Virginia on Monday.
Organizers with the group Appalachians Against Pipelines said 10
people locked themselves to construction equipment to protect
native species threatened by the controversial pipeline that
would carry fracked gas — primarily methane — more than 300
miles from West Virginia to southern Virginia. “Right now we’re
looking at a future with extreme water shortages, accelerating
difficulty in growing food, mass human displacement due to
natural disasters and manmade disasters caused by pipelines like
these,” said Mandy, one of the protesters.
The temporary construction comes as activists across the state
are ramping up pressure to block the pipeline. (WDBJ
HTML https://www.wdbj7.com/2021/08/09/protesters-rally-against-mountain-valley-pipeline-elliston/,<br
/>WSLS
HTML https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2021/08/09/ten-mountain-valley-pipeline-protesters-lock-themselves-to-equipment-other-blockades-in-montgomery-county/)
[center] [img
width=320]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/styles/renewablerevolution/files/3114_Business%20as%20usual.png[/img][img<br
/>width=320]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/styles/renewablerevolution/files/3076_Independence%20from%20Fossil%20Fuels.png[/img][/center]
#Post#: 16824--------------------------------------------------
“Adding costs to renewables will drive up systemwide cost for co
nsumers without improving reliability.
By: AGelbert Date: August 11, 2021, 12:48 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[img
width=180]
HTML https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2_IN1MJGf4OkBesWZi77BP6Ylt6SRUMuCuRFL1jFtxyy4DlB1c6NRaAujgNNfEHFM2QayBJ0hPzksQrR3nr7kATqsmYlrsMXjsmJnS1l62I=s0-d-e1-ft#http://media.pennnet.com/designimages/REW-0262_Energy_375.jpg[/img]
By John Engel - 8.10.2021
[center][img
width=325]
HTML https://images.renewableenergyworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/640px-Greg_Abbott_8085502321.jpg[/img][img<br
/>width=315]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-241013183046.jpeg[/img][/center]
[center]Texas Governor 🦖😈 Greg Abbot[/center]
[center]Corporate leaders ask ([img
width=25]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-051113192052.png[/img])<br
/>[img
width=30]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418201302.png[/img]Texas<br
/>Gov. 🦖 Greg Abbott [img
width=25]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418201722.png[/img]<br
/>to abandon 🦖😈 anti-renewable energy
proposals[/center]
The letter urges Texas leaders to scrap anti-renewable energy
proposals crafted in response to February's extreme winter
storm.
Read more
HTML https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/policy-regulation/corporate-leaders-ask-texas-gov-greg-abbott-to-abandon-anti-renewable-energy-proposals/?utm_source=rew_weekly_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-08-11<br
/>[img
width=90]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-081019223703.jpeg[/img][img<br
/>width=70
height=40]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-060518153110.png[/img]
[center][img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/styles/renewablerevolution/files/3114_Business%20as%20usual.png[/img][/center]
#Post#: 16892--------------------------------------------------
Re: 🎋 Victories Against the 🦕 Hydrocarbon Hellsp
awn
By: AGelbert Date: September 13, 2021, 11:05 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-270521170028.png[/img]
September 13, 2021
[center][img
width=338]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCi1IdQWYAAcO5Y.jpg[/img][img<br
/>width=302]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-170218174458.png[/img]<br
/>[/center]
[center]'A Large Domino To Fall' — Harvard To Shed Fossil Fuels
🦖 Investments[img
width=70]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-190419235756.png[/img]<br
/>[img
width=50]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-210818180844.png[/img][/center]
Harvard University will divest its $41 billion endowment from
🦖 fossil fuels, citing the financial imprudence of those
investments, its leadership announced late last week. The move
from the nation's oldest university, with the largest university
endowment, is a dramatic turn in the years-long battle between
the administration and organizers both on- and off-campus.
The university's statement did not set a timeline, nor use the
words "divest" or "divestment," but activists are taking the
win. “So long as Harvard follows through, this is divestment,”
Connor Chung ’23, a Divest Harvard organizer, told the Crimson.
“This is what they told us for a decade they couldn’t do, and
today, the students, faculty, and alumni have been vindicated.”
Harvard's announcement could have greater implications than just
its sizable endowment. “The fact that Harvard is finally
indicating that it is no longer supporting the fossil fuel
community is a large domino to fall,” Danielle Strasburger, a
2018 Harvard graduate who co-founded an alumni divestment
movement, told the New York Times. "Hopefully this will
encourage other universities to put the pressure on those who
haven’t yet.”
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818185040-1659929.gif
(Boston Globe $, New York Times $, Harvard Crimson
HTML https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/9/10/divest-declares-victory/,<br
/>Washington Post $, Democracy Now
HTML https://www.democracynow.org/2021/9/10/headlines/harvard_divests_from_fossil_fuels_after_years_long_student_campaign,<br
/>The Hill, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal $, HuffPost, Reuter
s,
The Guardian
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/10/harvard-university-divest-endowment-fossil-fuels,<br
/>AP, NPR, Bloomberg $, Al Jazeera)
#Post#: 16897--------------------------------------------------
“numerous deceptive acts and unfair practices in connection with
their marketing, distribution, and sale of gasoline and
By: AGelbert Date: September 15, 2021, 12:31 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/zAE24oQErXOpoVTSHpmisw_f_aV-XbV8d0r2vhgQLFvryr-JhLIvIYRZf81gD29sNxZEkblO02smodIiFI3qIuYKveRJ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://vtdigger.org/emailtemplate/vtd-fulllogo.png[/img][/center]
Sep 14 2021, 7:54 PM By Jackie O'Brien
[center]Attorney General TJ Donovan announces lawsuit against
🦖👿🦕 oil giants [img
width=70]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-190419235756.png[/img]<br
/>[img
width=40]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-020821163331.png[/img][/center]
SNIPPETS:
Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan announced Tuesday the state
has filed a lawsuit against the [img
width=50]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418193910.gif[/img]<br
/>four largest suppliers of 🦖 fossil fuels in Vermont,
arguing the companies have misled consumers about their
products’ contribution to climate change.
The state is seeking to force the companies to include stickers
or labels at gas pumps warning Vermonters about the products’
impact on the environment, in addition to fines and other
measures.
“Here’s the thing: We’re not saying, ‘Don’t sell your product in
Vermont.’ We’re not saying, ‘Vermonters, don’t drive,’” Donovan
said at a press conference outside Chittenden County Superior
Court in Burlington. “We are simply saying that Vermonters have
the right to know.”
The consumer protection suit claims that 🦖 Exxon,
🦕 Shell, 🦖 Sunoco and 🦕 CITGO have made
“past and ongoing violations” of Vermont’s Consumer Protection
Act via “numerous deceptive acts and unfair practices in
connection with their marketing, distribution, and sale of
gasoline and other fossil fuel products” in the state.
The state alleges that these [img
width=50]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418203402.gif[/img]<br
/>companies have done so in three ways:
👉 through historical knowledge that their products
contribute to climate change,
👉 by releasing false advertisements that downplay their
products’ impact on the environment and
👉 by “greenwashing” campaigns that suggest they are
helping address the problem.
The lawsuit calls for “disclosure at the point of sale,” which
could take the form of the stickers or labels at gas pumps, said
Peter McDougall, chief of the Environmental Protection Division
in the Vermont Attorney General’s Office.
“While the products are legal, they are not innocuous,”
Assistant Attorney General Justin Kolber said. “This is no
different than any other countless consumer products that carry
disclosures with them.” ... ...
The lawsuit alleges that the 🦖 defendants have known
their fossil fuels have contributed to climate change since the
1960s. The complaint cites internal reports conducted on behalf
of the defendants, such as one from Shell in 1988 that said
fossil fuels are “the primary driver of climate change,” and by
the time global warming is detected, “it could be too late to
reduce the effects.”
Meanwhile, according to the lawsuit, the companies used false
advertising to downplay the impact. At the press conference,
Kolber shared a 1988 internal memo from Exxon that said the
company should 😈 “emphasize uncertainty around climate
science and turn it into a debate,” which was followed by such
advertisements in the 1990s.
Full article: [img
width=60]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418200416.png[/img]<br
/>
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2021/09/14/attorney-general-tj-donovan-announces-lawsuit-against-oil-giants/
[center][img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/styles/renewablerevolution/files/4132_bigoil.jpeg[/img][/center]
[move][font=impact]The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹
Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions
suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human
health depleting CRIME. Since [Color=Brown]they have ALWAYS BEEN
liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to
AVOID [/color]DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them
get away with it! Pass it on![/font] [img
width=30]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160023-2284203.png[/img][/move]
#Post#: 16899--------------------------------------------------
"a framework for how we transition from dirty fossil fuels
to clean energy ...
By: AGelbert Date: September 16, 2021, 12:16 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/styles/renewablerevolution/files/845_Ban-Fracking-1.jpeg[/img]
[img
width=640]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-270521170028.png[/img]
September 16, 2021
[center]LA County Votes To End 🦕 Drilling [img
width=70]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-190419235756.png[/img]<br
/>[img
width=40]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-160921144626.png[/img][/center]
Los Angeles County supervisors on Wednesday voted to ban
drilling in unincorporated areas and to phase out oil and gas
drilling. There are currently 1,046 active wells, 637 idle
wells, and 2,731 abandoned wells in unincorporated areas of the
nation's most populous county. according to a memo to the board
dated June 3, 2021.
County Supervisor Janice Hahn praised the plan as "a framework
for how we transition from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy
and make sure we bring our labor partners with us." The Board
also voted to create a program to ensure that wells are properly
closed and cleaned up, and to expand the county's task force
focused on a just transition for fossil fuel workers and
communities. (AP, LA Times, News City Service
HTML http://usa-newsposts.com/2021/09/15/la-county-moves-to-ban-oil-wells-in-unincorporated-areas/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=160155804&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_C6XeruZ5L2QSO8zp2KDmsrU7c-ydgDLlUOScEizhubAO-nKDqYU58T8hUyBOBxeCRjBy08siQs9PEHRymIktORiLklw&utm_content=160155804&utm_source=hs_email)
#Post#: 16958--------------------------------------------------
🎋 Victories Against the 🦕 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn
By: AGelbert Date: October 7, 2021, 11:13 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[img
width=640]
HTML https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/X3ppRRYREa2GTayIys5RxRcDMBvjcvNuc4U5CBmvqTGH4fkeRiNqFCY6gJIXf-KsIk53t0jYd6Su3xZerKE0VDSV5j45uqijTuzTDiP4srp_01kCZy7e6bLI6gh4Zi5ZHCHYPtVi5fq7p2XREqFkPZshuckls01hw3aGg1iCoYyBVyoHdRCSGkUO97QDcAZqH3im9Q=s0-d-e1-ft#https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/MainHeaderTest_Orange.png?width=1200&upscale=true&name=MainHeaderTest_Orange.png[/img]
October 6, 2021
[img
width=640]
gopher.createaforum.com:70 /forums/renewablerevolution/p/346:376: line too long